Shifting Sentence Examples

He obeyed and sat across from her, shifting in his seat several times under her gaze.

He was shifting up for a sprint when it happened.

Instead of shifting with each step, the ground felt solid.

It's the oldest bond there is, old enough to keep the mating bond from shifting when she wins her deal.

"Anyway," Carmen said, shifting her attention back to his father.

She wisely chose not to meet the challenging gaze of a restlessly shifting man among the king's company but focused on Taran's leg.

They joined a larger group shifting from the eastern to the southern wall.

The jar made by shifting the men from one hole to another tells me when it is my turn.

"Mostly Arabian," he said, shifting his attention to Carmen.

He turned to Cynthia, awkwardly shifting him around so she could take him.

The clouds far above were starting to swirl with hypnotic slowness, the rain beginning to fall again, and the sea beneath their feet rippling and shifting beneath the rubbery surface.

His crying and shifting distracted her from the strange world around her and made her head pulse, as if he were trying to pry his way into her unwilling mind.

They moved like smoke, shifting and swirling as they crawled the walls.

He said nothing but let her strike several times before shifting to the offensive.

Shifting to his highest gear, Dean raced in pursuit down a long incline.

"Come to daddy," he whispered, lifting her and shifting her to one arm so he could hold the bottle with the other hand.

The use of the slips for the purpose of multiplication is now evident; thus to multiply 2085 by 736 we take out in this manner the multiples corresponding to 6, 3, 7, and set down the digits as they are obtained, from right to left, shifting them back one place and adding up the columns as in ordinary multiplication, viz.

The rainbow tints from the colored suns fell upon the glass city softly and gave to the buildings many delicate, shifting hues which were very pretty to see.

With shifting eyes but eyebrows still raised, Telyanin handed him the purse.

Prince Andrew smiled involuntarily as he looked at the artillery officer Tushin, who silent and smiling, shifting from one stockinged foot to the other, glanced inquiringly with his large, intelligent, kindly eyes from Prince Andrew to the staff officer.

Maybe that was what the dream was about – shifting from one family to the next.

She scooted closer to him, shifting the blanket so that she could drape the excess around his shoulders.

She nudged him with her nose then licked his face, her demeanor shifting to the gentle wolf he knew.

"OK," Joan said, shifting in her chair as she read the tablet.

Shifting her position to relieve a cramp in her hip, she twisted the injured shoulder and cried out in pain.

He gazed at her, shifting to lean forward, the only sign of his unease.

It took her a few minutes to become accustomed to the gearing, but she was shifting smoothly much quicker than he expected.

He did so impatiently, shifting his gear around his body.

Thoughts shifting to the task at hand, Xander stepped back to watch the Grey God do his job.

In depths beyond the reach of wave motion, and apart from suspension across a submarine gully, which will sooner or later result in a rupture of the cable, the most frequent cause of interruption is seismic or other shifting of the ocean bed, while in shallower waters and near the shore the dragging of anchors or 40 fishing trawls has been mostly responsible.

This was Zamon's plan, to offer Darkyn something capable of distracting him, of shifting his focus.

It couldn't be easy shifting from the role of the patient to the demanding role of husband and father.

"How are the power grids holding up?" he asked, gaze shifting to the screens around them.

We need to leave the forest, he said, shifting after a long moment.

Mums nodded, her gaze shifting back to the coffee cup.

Shifting her attention from the tattooed man, Jenn rested her eyes on the young man, who glanced at her after Dustin spoke.

The demon was silent but shifting within her chest.

Shifting her weight off the injured ankle, she pushed away from him.

The whole conception of force may disappear from a theory of the universe; and we can adopt a geometrical definition of motion as the shifting of one body from the neighbourhood of those bodies which immediately touch it, and which are assumed to be at rest, to the neighbourhood of other bodies.

There has been in effect a successive shifting of zones of vegetation southwards from the pole.

These " stone runs " are looked upon with great wonder by the shifting population of the Falklands, and they are shown to visitors with many strange speculations as to their mode of formation.

In Israel as in Judah the political disasters not only meant a shifting of population, they also brought into prominence the old popular and non-official religion, the character of which is not to be condemned because of the attitude of lofty prophets in advance of their age.

And is made dangerous by the Campeche banks, a northward extension of the peninsula, covered with shifting sands.

The remarkable phenomenon of the periodic Turkestan shifting of the Lop Nor system has been revealed by the and Oxus researches of Sven Hedin, and the former existence of basin.

It is clear, however, that the Chinese came from the west, and entered their present territory along the course of the Hwang-ho at an unknown period, possibly about 3000 B.C. In early historical times China consisted of a shifting confederacy of feudal states, but about 220 B.C. the state of Tsin or Chin (whence the name China) came into prominence, and succeeded in forming a homogeneous empire, which advanced considerably towards the south.

The prevailing winds in most parts are westerly, but sudden changes, as well as the extremes of temperature, are caused mainly by the frequent shifting of the wind from N.W.

To the same grade of cotton, and are drawn up according to certain forms and circulate on the exchange as media for the shifting of risks connected with purchase and sale.

Before that time the Manchus were more or less a shifting population, and, being broken up into a number of tribes, they went mainly under the distinctive name of those clans which exercised lordship over them.

The decisive movement was a passage in strength near Fuenterrabia, to the astonishment of Passage of the the enemy, who in view of the width of the river Bidassoa, and the shifting sands, had thought the crossing October 7, impossible at that point.

Wide, and its entrance from the sea by small vessels, except in the finest weather, was a perilous undertaking, owing to the shifting sands and a dangerous bar.

The bed of the great river maintains a fairly constant position between its extreme banks, but the channels within that bed are so constantly shifting as to require close supervision on the part of the navigation authorities; so much detritus is carried down as to form a perpetually changing series of obstructions to steamer traffic.

These require constant shifting because the objects are in contact at many points, and because the top ones shield those below from the depositing action of the current.

Stephen became by the shifting fortune of war a prisoner, and the empress Matilda might, if she had had the wisdom to favour the citizens, have held the throne, which was hers by right of birth.

Though Lubeck's right as court of appeal from the Hanseatic counter at Novgorod was not recognized by the general assembly of the League until 1373, the long-existing practice had simply accorded with the actual shifting of commercial power.

To the south of the Jerid the country is mainly desert - vast unexplored tracts of shifting sand, with rare oases.

"If you please, Miss! allow me," said the maid, who on her knees was pulling the skirt straight and shifting the pins from one side of her mouth to the other with her tongue.

It depends on what you hear; hammering and knocking--that's bad; but a sound of shifting grain is good and one sometimes hears that, too.

Jauntily shifting the position of his legs in their tight riding breeches, diffusing an odor of perfume, and admiring his partner, himself, and the fine outlines of his legs in their well-fitting Hessian boots, Nicholas told the blonde lady that he wished to run away with a certain lady here in Voronezh.

Pierre suddenly exclaimed with a laugh, and shifting the baby he gave him to the nurse.